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RUTH FIELDING AT LIGHTHOUSE POINT
"But maybe he doesn't really know anything about Nita!" cried Heavy.
"And maybe he knows just where she is," said Ruth.
"Wal! he seems like a mighty sharp feller," admitted the cattleman, seriously. "I want my Jane Ann back. I don't begredge no five hundred dollars. I'm a-goin' over to that lighthouse and see what this Missus Purling—you say she's the keeper?—knows about it. That's what I'm going to do!" finished Hicks with emphasis.
